People Management
6 tips for managing a hybrid team
Here are 6 tips for managing a hybrid team to boost team dynamics, collaboration, and performance.
Greg Barnett · 6 min read
Blog Posts by Greg Barnett
Greg is the SVP of science at PI.
Company Culture
8 ways to create psychological safety in the workplace
Psychological safety in the workplace leads to higher performance and less employee turnover. Follow these 8 tips to build trust on your team—and across the company.
Greg Barnett · 8 min read
Company Culture
The change Facebook drastically needs
Facebook has been in the limelight lately—and not for good reason. They need a drastic change to the way they do business. They need talent optimization.
Greg Barnett · 8 min read
Hiring
Compensation strategies for attracting and retaining top talent
Compensation is a major factor in employee attraction, retention, and turnover. Is your organization’s pay philosophy aligned with best practices?
Greg Barnett · 7 min read
Company Culture
Cutting edge human resources: trends in talent optimization
Talent optimization is the future of work. Science, technology, analytics, and research will all help you leverage your people. Check out these resources.
Greg Barnett · 3 min read
Company Culture
This is why Tesla needs talent optimization.
Tesla is suffering from a variety of business challenges from executive turnover to layoffs. What’s the answer to its problems? Talent optimization.
Greg Barnett · 9 min read
Hiring
5 reasons to use a cognitive ability test for hiring & employment
If you’ve ever hired a new employee, you know that success can be a game of chance. Get it right and everyone’s happy. Get it wrong and disaster can ensue.
Greg Barnett · 4 min read
Uncategorized
What is multivariate predictability?
Multivariate predictability is one of those terms that can send even the most seasoned HR or talent management pro scrambling for a dictionary. Multi-what-now? Luckily, the concept itself is more simple than it sounds. We’re going to unpack it for you here, so that you can toss it around in meetings and sound super smart….
Greg Barnett · 4 min read
People Management
How to understand different types of employee behavior in the workplace
Understanding the influencing factors and types of employee behavior is critical to your success. Here’s the four key factors you need to know.
Greg Barnett · 6 min read
People Management
What I learned from watching a bunch of losers
8 tips for creating better performing organizations in business and sports
Greg Barnett · 10 min read
Employee Engagement
The four environmental pressures that lead to employee disengagement
You can successfully improve engagement when you address disengagement at the individual level. Companies spend too little time really understanding what makes their people unique and how this impacts their everyday work experience. In fact, many employees are faced with strong pressures to change who they are in order to meet the expectations of their job,…
Greg Barnett · 5 min read
Employee Engagement
Rethinking employee engagement and the benefits of getting it right
Greg Barnett · 5 min read
Uncategorized
Is it extraversion or extroversion?
We debunk the psychology behind this word and how you really should be spelling it. A lot of people ask the question, ‘what is the correct spelling of the word extraversion? Is it with an “A,” as in extraversion, or with an “O,” as in extroversion. We deal with this same thing here at PI…
Greg Barnett · 3 min read
Consultant Resources
Solving for ‘g’: Getting value from cognitive ability tests
By Greg Barnett, PhD
Greg Barnett · 3 min read